He took the reins just below the bit and held them firmly, and it was his turn to smile now.

During his two terms the Constitution was tested and found workable, strong national policies were inaugurated, and the traditions and powers of the Presidential office firmly fixed.

The Istiqlal was still firmly united in 1957, but the P.D.I. ( Parti Democratique de l'Independance ), the most important minor party at the time, objected to the Istiqlal's predominance in the civil service and influence in Radio Maroc.

Finally, the conception of the natural community of all possessions which originated with the Stoics was firmly fixed in a tradition by More's time, although it was not accepted by all the theologian-philosophers of the Middle Ages.

As it was, it took the pigment well for six hours, enough for our purpose, and held it firmly in setting.

The plaster was sound, the intonaco firmly attached all over, and the pigment solidly incorporated with it in all but a few unimportant places.

She paused at the kitchen door, caught her breath, told herself firmly that the opium was only an attempt to frighten her and went into the kitchen, where Glendora was eyeing the chickens dismally and Maude was cleaning lamp chimneys.

During the Carolingian epoch the custom grew up of granting these as regular heritable fiefs or benefices, and by the 10th century, before the great Cluniac reform, the system was firmly established.

Once he was firmly established in the Northern March, Albert's covetous eye lay also on the thinly populated lands to the north and east.

Before the Civil War he was firmly against secession, but when the war started he nevertheless took the side of the Confederacy.

After Arnà's death, his son Alioto renewed his claim to the island but was told that the republic was firmly resolved to keep it.

By 1900 the advertising agency had become the focal point of creative planning, and advertising was firmly established as a profession.

By 16: 00, with the enemy troops besieged in Blenheim and Oberglau, the Allied centre of 81 squadrons ( nine squadrons had been transferred from Cutts ' column ), supported by 18 battalions was firmly planted amidst the French line of 64 squadrons and nine battalions of raw recruits.

The connection was firmly cemented by the time Lancaster and Douglas reteamed for their final movie, Tough Guys.

However, this decision was based firmly in the older notions ( see above ) that prevailed at the time as to the mode of corporate decision making, and effective control residing in the shareholders ; if they elected and put up with an incompetent decision maker, they should not have recourse to complain.

Lenin was firmly opposed to any re-unification, but was outvoted within the Bolshevik leadership.

Between then and 1764, when a more formal revised version was published, a number of things happened which were to separate the Scottish Episcopal liturgy more firmly from either the English books of 1549 or 1559.

Use of jumps or aerial acrobacies was kept to a minimum, since one of its foundations was always keeping at least one hand or foot firmly attached to the ground.

He further asserts that although Gauss firmly believed in the immortality of the soul and in some sort of life after death, it was not in a fashion that could be interpreted as Christian.

against this bent man in the chair he was powerless.

First it was the Nations against themselves, then it was them against the whites.

The fire had gone down, and the man was only a shadow against the trees.

There a dozen giant monitors played their seventy-five-foot jets of water against the huge seam of tertiary gravel which was the mountainside.

Hague, like all who worked near the pits, was partly deafened from the constant assault against his eardrums.

He was a big man, wearing a neat flannel shirt against the cold foothill air.

against the limitless background of sky and wasteland it was easy to confirm her analysis.

He was puffing on a cigar, and he was turning up his coat collar against the rain.

The hands and their bosses saw him as a lone knight of the range, waging a dedicated crusade against a lawless new society that was threatening a beloved way of life.

He knew now what he was up against.

The metal strip they had taken off from was coal black against the green jungle around it.

Johnson's left hand was pressed against the side of his head, red cheeks whitening beneath his fingers.

The Indian's arm whipped sidewise -- there was a flash of amber and froth, the crash of the bottle shattering against the side of the first car.

I was standing beside her, watching the outspread palms and wondering about the old horsehair sofa against the wall on which he sometimes napped.

Nicolas was dreaming he had his head pressed against the dashboard of a speeding car.

Blue Throat was slumped with his back against the bar, elbows supporting his massive frame.

Although New Orleans was not to learn of it for a spell, she also was a sadist, a nymphomaniac and unobtrusively mad -- the perpetrator of some of the worst crimes against humanity ever committed on American soil.

Theirs is no mere lack of sympathy, but something closer to the passionate hatred that was directed against Fascism.

The man was leaning against the rock.

`` It was then I knew that they were making war against Man, the individual within!!

Not only is Mr. Frelinghuysen a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, but he is the grandson of the man who was instrumental in opening relations between the United States and Korea, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, Secretary of State in the administration of Chester A. Arthur.

Next year is the 80th anniversary of the signing of the treaty between Korea and the United States and experts in Seoul are trying to find the correspondence between Frederick Frelinghuysen, who was Secretary of State in 1883 and 1884, and Gen. Lucius Foote, who was the first minister to Korea.

Bursting from the lips of a charging cavalry trooper was the last sound heard on this earth by untold numbers of Cheyennes, Sioux and Apaches, Mexican banditos under Pancho Villa, Japanese in the South Pacific, and Chinese and North Korean Communists in Korea.

From then on the Fighting Seventh was in the thick of the bitterest fighting in Korea.

So filled was Mel Chandler with the spirit of Garryowen that after Korea was over, he took on the job of writing the complete history of the regiment.

In Korea, the Hangul alphabet was created by Sejong the Great Hangul is a unique alphabet: it is a featural alphabet, where many of the letters are designed from a sound's place of articulation ( P to look like the widened mouth, L to look like the tongue pulled in, etc.

Dame Jean was at one time a lady-in-waiting to Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, patron of the Dandie Dinmont Club, a breed of dog named after one of Sir Walter Scott's characters ; and a horse trainer, one of whose horses, Sir Wattie, ridden by Ian Stark, won two silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

In East Asia, Goguryeo, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea was well known for its regiments of exceptionally skilled archers.

Arbor Day ( Sikmogil, 식목일 ) was a public holiday in South Korea on April 5 until 2005.

On occasion SPAAGs have been used as very effective direct fire weapons against infantry, for example by American forces during late World War II, in Korea against mass infantry assault, and extensively during the Vietnam War, where for example the U. S. M42 Duster SPAAG ( based on a light tank ) was employed purely for this purpose.

Some military and medical aid was also supplied to North Korea and North Vietnam in the 1950s and 1960s.

In South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Malaysia, BCG was given at birth and again at age 12.

But in Malaysia and Singapore, from 2001, this policy was changed to once only at birth, and it was discontinued in South Korea.

This view was challenged by China and North Korea, who accused the U. S. of large-scale field testing of biological warfare against them during the Korean War ( 1950 – 1953 ), but this claim has been disputed.

This was despite major actions in Korea in 1950 and Suez in 1956.

In 1994, the prayers announced " allowed " by the 1982 Bishops Council of the Anglican Church of Korea was published in a second version of the Book of Common Prayers In 2004, the National Anglican Council published the third and the current Book of Common Prayers known as " seoung-gong-hwe gi-do-seo " or the " Anglican Prayers ", including the Daily Masses, Special Masses, Baptism, Confirmation, Funeral Mass, Wedding Mass, Rite of Ordination Mass, and all of the other events the Anglican Church of Korea celebrates.

Korea had been divided at the end of World War II along the 38th parallel into Soviet and U. S. occupation zones, in which a communist government was installed in the North by the Soviets, and an elected government in the South came to power after UN-supervised elections in 1948.

Year-on-year growth in imports was especially strong from a number of countries-Ecuador ( 123. 9 %), Thailand ( 72. 1 %), Korea ( 52. 6 %), and China ( 36. 9 %).

A Canadian Medical Association Journal paper states that " The famine in Cuba during the Special Period was caused by political and economic factors similar to the ones that caused a famine in North Korea in the mid-1990s.